Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

In the darkness time, the soul evolves to give light to the spirit.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.